cognitive impairment or just plain lazy?

[madasahatstand]

i have noticed in the last few years that my spelling is totally appalling. i was wondering if its because i use PC more than i write? if you dont use it, you lose it so to speak.
its actually quite worrying and i was wondering if it could be that my brain cells have started to diminish at a rapid pace? maybe i should go back to hand writing for a spell instead of PC spell checking and dictating.

i hear ginko biloba is good for the old grey matter. maybe ill get some of that?

[kinboshi]

It's probably lack of use. 

Same as mental arithmetic, oh and handwriting.  I used to have neat handwriting - but now I don't write much at all with a pen, and it shows!

[AndrewT]

I think the decline in spelling is down to computers. Back when I were a lad, spelling a word wrongly would mean I'd have to have a messy scribbling out on the page. Any difficult word I would write down on a scrap piece of paper first to see if it looked right. Anything I wrote down which someone else was going to read was usually going to be read by a teacher, so I wanted it to be right.

Now, I just tend to vomit my brains onto a keyboard and then have to correct all the errors when I preview my message. For people who don't read back what they've typed, all these errors would remain in the message.

As for handwriting, when I was at school I had a well developed callous on the top joint of my middle finger from all the writing. I had to take notes in a meeting recently and after only a couple of lines my hand started seizing up - it was almost as if my hand had forgotten how to hold a pen.

[roverthtaeh]

I've never had a problem with speling at all.

[AndrewT]

I've never had a problem with speling at all.

Niether hav I.